THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. 87 



SO I am not much afraid of you men shooting me on the spot. 

 Now what is the difference between cows? Suppose one cow 

 gives a thousand pounds more than another ! I have a neighbor 

 who is a rich man. He has a great number of farms, but he got 

 them by inheritance. He is interested in the bank, is vice-presi- 

 dent, he is a surveyor, we are in the drainage district and he has 

 all the work he can do at $7.00 a day. He is supplying milk to 

 one of the big hotels, he gets 4 cents at the hotel door. He made 

 a brag that his cows were bringing him $54.00 a year and they 

 were dual purpose cows. 



1,350 quarts at 4 cents a quart is a little over 2,700 pounds 

 per 3^ear. He would be getting on that basis 30 cents a pound. 



There is a man in our state whose cows are giving him over 

 $75.00 at the creamery. Suppose another man only made 1,000 

 pounds, suppose you increased another 100, and then you would 

 not have it up as you ought ; suppose you run it up another i ,000, 

 you would have 5,800 pounds. A good Jersey herd would do 

 that and they are not supposed to be great producers. Now you 

 can see how easy it is for just 1,000 pounds of milk would 

 amount in the long run to a great deal. Now you can see what 

 a special purpose cow can do over a dual purpose cow. 



There is a comparison between a special purpose and a dual 

 purpose cow, and what holds in the past will hold true in the 

 aA'crage, and I will leave it to any man who has had experience 

 if that is not true, what is true of the past is true of the av- 

 erage. 



Up in here in Wisconsin a Jersey man told me he was out to 

 one creamery and he inquired of those men what those cows 

 were doing. They were all Holstein cows, their average was 

 300 pounds per year. He visited another brother and asked him 

 what his average was and he told him his average was 150 

 pounds and a steer calf. Now that steer calf was worth in his 

 eyes $150.00. 



I said good cows are the basis of successful dairying. How 

 are we going to get good cows? There are two ways, one by 

 purchase, the other raise them. It is not my purpose to say to 

 the man who has plenty of means what he shall do. He can 



